SARAH BUITENDACH: Jeff Bezos’ houses: lifestyles of the rich and edible
There’s nothing like whipping out a good old device of decapitation to make your point about social inequality and the elites
You may have seen the news pieces in the past few weeks, like this one from Vanity Fair (https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2020/08/jeff-bezos-guillotine-protest-amazon-workers), that detailed how protesters recently set up a guillotine outside the Washington, DC home of the world’s richest man, Jeff Bezos.
As I sat knitting like a proper tricoteuse, and reading about the goings-on, I chuckled darkly. There’s nothing like whipping out a good old device of decapitation — most famously used to do away with France’s uber-wealthy during the French Revolution — to make your point about social inequality and the elites...
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